Three-component four-element objective



SEARCH R00 June 10,1952 P. H. TAYLOR THREE COMPONENT FOUR-ELEMENT OBJECTIVE Filed May 9, 1950 Ills I4 reA/r 4rrcalver Patented June 10, 1952 SEARCH ROOM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE THREE-COMPONENT FOUR-ELEMENT OBJECTIVE P l p H. Taylor, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor to Northrop Aircraft, Inc., Hawthorne, Calif., a corporation of California.

Application May 9, 1950, Serial No. 160,885

4861 angstroms (F line of hydrogen). The lens of the present invention is completely free of appreciable spherical aberration and coma for all wavelengths in the range D to h.

' The only serious residual aberrations in an image produced by the lens of the present invention are chromatic. They are: secondary color (axial) and lateral color (oblique). Both are about twice the tolerance set by the Rayleigh limits.

It has been found however, that D and h achromatization with spherical and coma correction at F is satisfactory for energization of a IP21 photocell (S4 surface). when the source is a star of an average spectral class (e. g., the sun) and even when dense flint elements, which have serious energy absorption in the violet region, are

used in the system.

Due to secondary color, this residual chromatism causes the red image at the focal point for wavelength 4047 (72. line of mercury) to have a diameter which is about the limit that can be tolerated.

Lateral color or chromatic difference of magnification causes a deterioration by the image 2 degrees from the axis which is about as serious as that of secondary color on the axis. Since, at

- diagrammatic sectional view of an objective according to this invention. The lens system comprises four lenses. Lens I is a bi-convex positive element. Lenses 3 and 4, a bi-convex and a concave-convex element, respectively, are cemented together to. make up the back member.

2 Lens 2 is a dispersive biconcave lens. A stop 8 i positioned between lenses and 2.

Construction data for an objective, built in accordance with this invention follows:

Prescription Glass 5890, Np 4861, N! 4047, Ni V BSC-2 1.51700 1.52262 1.53043 Lac-2 sr-a Diameter all lenses 10004-380 Clear aperture: 1.00000 Stop Diameter: .800=l=.0l0

Pole of surface 1': to stop: 394601.010

sin 'UM: .0023151 Where 1' denotes the radius of the lens surfaces from front to rear as indicated by respective subscripts, where 111, da, ds and d: are axial component thicknesses from front to rear respectively, where (is is the axial distance between lenses I and 2, and where 111 is the axial distance between lenses 2 and 3. (Note-For definition of symbols and aberration letters shown refer to A. E. Conrady: "Applied Optics and Optical Design, Part 1, Oxford University Press, 1929.)

The prescription given herein can easily be varied to suit various purposes as may be desired, by a simple scaling procedure. 7

When the radii. thicknesses and diameters of the component lenses, for example, are each multiplied by a constant, and then multiplication is performed of effective focal length, back focal length, and the linear size of the field of the original system by the same constant, precise values for the new system will be obtained.

3 What is claimed is:

A four element objective comprising three coaxial components of which the first is a bi-convex lens. the second a negative bi-concave lens and the third is a bi-convex lens cemented to 5 a concave-convex lens, the objective being spherically corrected at D, F, and h wavelengths, and chromatically corrected at D and h wavelengths to provide a well corrected field of at least flve degrees, and having a prescription as 10 follows 1 Prescription Glass Nn NI N L di 140 DF-2 1. 61700 1. 6m 1. 64740 LBC-2 1.57250 1.57853 1.58951 flu-.220 BF-3 1.57044 1.57884 1.59118 where r is the radius length for an element'surface; d is the axial thickness of an element;

N is the index of refraction for the D line of sodium N is the index of refraction for the F line of hydrogen (4861 A);

N is the index of refraction for the h line of mercur 4047 A and N D 1 N, N I.

BBC-2 is a type of boro-silicate crown glass well known in the art;

BF-2 is a type of dense flint glass well known in the art;

LEG-2 is a type of light barium crown glass well known in the art; and

BF-3 is a type of barium flint glass well known in the art.

15 PHILIP H. TAYLOR.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the 20 file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Great Britain Jan. 10, 1924 

